Posts tagged RealWorld

I am a big fan of Shadow Era, a really solid World of Warcraft-style virtual collectible card game for iOS. It's been out for a little while, and with a few excellent updates and expansion packs released, there's a lot of game here to be had, starting at the low price of free. Now there's news...

There's an interesting piece up over at the BBC's State of Play blog about how online games are becoming more and more social places, not just for friendly relationships, but for romantic ones as well. While meeting online used to be an embarassing thing for couples, nowadays it's much, much more c...

The always-interesting Terra Nova has a piece up about Nick Yee's the Proteus Effect, which is based around how we relate to (and interact with) stimuli in virtual worlds, specifically our and others' avatars.Basically, almost all of the research so far shows that we react to virtual stimuli exactly...

It's been a while since we last did this, so let's do it again: Where have you seen WoW in your real life world?Umi on WoW Ladies sees BOP, and automatically thinks Bind on Pickup. I was once driving around looking for a party, and had been playing WoW so much lately that when I realized I was los...

First Newsweek's Stephen Levy alleges that Guitar Hero is "dumbing down musicianship," and now this. NPR commentator Kelly McBride recently aired her fears that Wii Sports is artificially inflating the self-esteem of her Wii-playing children.
According to McBride's logic, children used to effortles...

If you thought your portable gaming options were all but limited to Sony's PSP or Nintendo's DS / DS Lite (or those Korean-based all-in-one gizmos), a group of Swedish programmers are hoping to change all that in drastic fashion. Concocting an "in-car gaming system" that utilizes a GPS receiver, ha...

We may have had plenty of brushes with death ingame, but this real-world story is something else. Livejournal user antiotter was calmly playing WoW one evening when:My neighbor accidentally put a .44 Magnum round though my wall. It missed my head by three inches. It started in his bathroom, went thr...

There's something about playing Guitar Hero that appeals to the exhibitionist in all of us. This year, the UK's Download Festival will cater to that by allowing Guitar Hero players to take to the Third Stage in between acts -- although there will be limited walk-up opportunities, they'd like you to...

The MMORPG Project Entropia is known for its economic experiments, with pieces of virtual land being bought for high real-world
prices. This latest news breaks the barrier between real and virtual money even further, however; a new cash card
will let owners withdraw from their ingame balances using...

A topic of contention, which neatly fits in with yesterday's topic of spouses who don't play WoW, is the
value of WoW when compared to &quot;real&quot; hobbies. The argument is one that many gamers are familiar with: why
spend time achieving greatness in a virtual world, when at the end of the day y...

Seattle, New York, LA, London...
Azeroth? The latest addition to city-specific blog site Metroblogs' line-up is none other than our favourite virtual
destination. Although there's not much on the site at the moment (watch out for NSFW language in the first link), it's
an interesting move to consider...

MTV
announced today that the next season of their granddaddy of reality TV will be shot in Denver, CO. Where is MTV's high
definition station MHD based? Colorado. It makes complete sense to me for
them to use one of their longest running and most popular series (especially since they don't show musi...